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Gospel Songs By Aretha Franklin

CHICAGO (AP) — The year’s Chicago Gospel Music Festival will include a tribute to the “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin. The 2019 festival runs May 31 to June 1 in Chicago’s lakefront Millennium Park.

In 1971, Aretha Franklin was at the first peak of. By the time she travelled to Los Angeles, to record an album of gospel.

Robert Darden, a gospel music historian and journalism professor at Baylor University, said the appeal of Franklin’s music crossed racial boundaries in a divided era. "Aretha was one of the very, very.

In recognition of Aretha’s roots in Gospel Music and her continuing love for the genre. and continue to present the award forever in her name as the Aretha Franklin ICON Award.” The Stellar Awards.

and he received a standing ovation after performing “His Eye Is on the Sparrow,” reportedly one of his mother’s favorite gospel songs, at his grandfather Rev. C.L. Franklin’s funeral in 2015. 1:20 p.m.

In Aretha Franklin’s revelatory concert film Amazing Grace. Instead, she focuses her concentration wholly on the spirit of the gospel music she came to perform during the film’s historic two-day.

The singer, who died at age 76 last year, was first recorded singing gospel music at her father’s church at age 14. RELATED: Aretha Franklin started with gospel, ended with soul at age 76 The title.

how the song "Oh Happy Day" brought gospel music into the mainstream pop culture in the late ’60s, the influence of gospel on Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Elvis Presley, and the impact of.

When Rev. Franklin sings his daughter’s praises — “Aretha is just a stone singer” — she looks. But Aretha is in perfect voice, singing the early-gospel song “God Shall Wipe All Tears Away.” None.

When Aretha sang gospel, she connected the creator with the created. Isiah Thomas, former NBA player for the Detroit Pistons, recalled getting to know the music of Franklin through his mother.

DETROIT (Reuters) – A Detroit church swelled with the sound of gospel music on Friday as family, friends and fans of Aretha Franklin bid rousing farewell to the Queen of Soul at a funeral that.